<p>Hey, I live in Michigan and am really interested in going to school for an undergrad degree in archaeology, preferably Syro-Palestinian variety. Anyone know a good school to go to, in or out of the country?</p>
<p>Michigan’s Near Eastern archaeology offerings are pretty weak these days, but it should be good enough for your purposes, and in-state tuition would make it a bargain. </p>
<p>The best programs are at:
[ul][<em>]Chicago
[</em>]Harvard
[<em>]Johns Hopkins
[</em>]Penn State
[<em>]UCLA
[</em>]UCSD[/ul]
Also maybe Berkeley. The UCs aren’t worth OOS tuition, though. </p>
<p>Any college with several years of Hebrew, at least year of other Semitic languages, and decent archaeology offerings would be fine. To the schools above, I’d add:
[ul][<em>]Boston U
[</em>]Brandeis
[<em>]Brown
[</em>]Bryn Mawr (and Haverford)
[<em>]Columbia (and Barnard)
[</em>]Cornell
[<em>]NYU
[</em>]Penn
[li]Yale[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Other possibilities:
[ul][<em>]UNC and/or Duke
[</em>]Emory
[<em>]USC
[</em>]GWU
[<em>]Lycoming
[</em>]Wheaton[/ul]</p>
<p>Outside the country:
[ul][<em>]Toronto (Canada)
[</em>]UBC (Canada)
[<em>]UCL (UK)
[</em>]Oxford (UK)
[<em>]Cambridge (UK)
[</em>]Liverpool (UK)
[*]Macquarie (Australia)[/ul]</p>
<p>I really wanted to be an archaeologist when I was younger. Go to the UK!</p>